Getting in the last bit of vitamin D

Title image is of a tussock milkweed moth caterpillar.

…it is far too easy to be called to the canvas to paint.

If you live in a climate that changes seasons often, it's easy to see a season pass by without ever experiencing it. Because you were inside the whole time, working away, yet looking wistfully outside.

I've been dealing with mental health stuff for 20+ years. I know by now how crucial absorbing the sun and getting outside and doing a little bit of walking in nature is for my sanity and wellbeing. I plan trips for us outside, and spend time in the garden, but yet the summer always feels too short.

The last of the sweet pea blooms for the season ✨

We’ve enjoyed lots of water so far, I hope to live closer to water one day. (Providing the world somehow bounces back from the current climate catastrophe of course.)

If only we could stay on the lazy river.

Forever drifting,

those tires were shifting our problems

aimlessly away.